Movies: David Bordwell
- 2016
Cinema Futures (2016)
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Analog celluloid strips are disappearing. Is film dying, or just changing? Are the world's film archives on the brink of a dark age? Renowned filmmakers, museum curators, historians, and engineers help dramatize the future of film and the cinema in t...
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- 2013
Functions of Film Sound (2013)
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This visual essay sets clips from Robert Bresson's "A Man Escaped" to a reading of "Functions of Film Sound," a chapter from David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's book "Film Art." The chapter analyzes the sound design of Bresson's masterpiece as a me...
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- 2017
Lighting Up with Hildy Johnson (2017)
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In this 25-minute video essay, film scholar David Bordwell, co-author of "Film Art: An Introduction", conducts an analysis of Howard Hawks's "His Girl Friday" (1940), which he believes to be the apotheosis of classical Hollywood storytelling. Bordwel...
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- 2019
The Gift to Be Simple: Satire and Sympathy in 'The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice' (2019)
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David Bordwell, author of Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema, discusses some of the key themes and stylistic qualities that define Yasujiro Ozu's work and The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice, in this interview for The Criterion Collection....
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